Being Cared for and Growing Up Slowly: Parenting Slows Human Life History

IF 2.3 4区心理学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Parenting-Science and Practice Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/15295192.2023.2243500

H. Lu, Anting Yang, Yuan Yuan Liu, Nan Zhu, Lei Chang

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SYNOPSIS Objective. For most animals, extrinsic mortality risks drive a fast life history (LH) strategy in which animals disregard risks and accelerate reproduction. Instead of perpetuating mortality driving fast LH, humans have reduced almost all mortality risks in living environments, resulting in a significant slowing of LH. Additionally, humans exhibit invested parenting which entails teaching their young survival or mortality reduction skills. Could parenting provide an additional pathway to the development and slowing of human LH? Design. Data reported here come from interviews and questionnaires administered to a community sample of 286 rural Chinese parents and their children when the children were on average 7, 8, and 11 years old. Results. Parental acceptance statistically mediates and moderates the longitudinal association between environmental adversities and children’s LH. Conclusions. Parenting breaks the species-general contingency between mortality conditions and fast offspring LH strategies and provides an additional pathway to the development and slowing of human LH.

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被照顾和成长缓慢:养育放慢了人类的生命历程

大纲的目标。对于大多数动物来说，外在死亡风险驱动了一种快速生活史(LH)策略，在这种策略中，动物无视风险并加速繁殖。人类已经降低了生活环境中几乎所有的死亡风险，而不是使死亡率持续加速黄体生成素，从而导致黄体生成素的显著减缓。此外，人类表现出投入的养育方式，这需要教会他们的孩子生存或降低死亡率的技能。父母抚养是否能为人类黄体生成素的发展和减缓提供额外的途径?设计。本文报告的数据来自对286名中国农村父母及其孩子的访谈和问卷调查，这些孩子的平均年龄分别为7岁、8岁和11岁。结果。父母接受在统计上中介和调节环境逆境与儿童LH之间的纵向关联。结论。亲子关系打破了死亡条件和快速后代LH策略之间的物种普遍偶然性，并为人类LH的发展和减缓提供了额外的途径。

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期刊介绍： Parenting: Science and Practice strives to promote the exchange of empirical findings, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches from all disciplines that help to define and advance theory, research, and practice in parenting, caregiving, and childrearing broadly construed. "Parenting" is interpreted to include biological parents and grandparents, adoptive parents, nonparental caregivers, and others, including infrahuman parents. Articles on parenting itself, antecedents of parenting, parenting effects on parents and on children, the multiple contexts of parenting, and parenting interventions and education are all welcome. The journal brings parenting to science and science to parenting.